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SMoCA announces its 2020 exhibition schedule

Posted 11/13/19

Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, 7374 E. Second St., announces six new exhibitions on view for 2020.

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SMoCA announces its 2020 exhibition schedule

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Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, 7374 E. Second St., announces six new exhibitions on view for 2020.

The museum presents an exhibition, early in the year, of international designers who position environmental concerns and sustainability at the center of their process, according to a press release, adding that a year-long collection show highlights powerful works by women artists with the national platform Feminist Art Coalition.

Summer at the Museum debuts a new light and space installation by Phillip K. Smith III and a group exhibition of Iranian photography and video that introduces viewers to the life in Iran, the release said.

During the fall, an installation of ceramic sculptures by Nathan Lynch sets a stage for performances about varying viewpoints in a Post-Truth Era and an exhibition by Brad Kahlhamer presents new works in various mediums offering a “meditation on the nomadic and intersectional contemporary condition that involves a social network of individuals of different ages, residency status, class and race,” described the release..

Each new exhibition kicks off with an opening party that includes free admission for the public to preview the galleries with curators, artists and the community. The first opening will be held at 7 p.m. Friday, Feb. 14, a final celebration of 20 years of SMoCA.

Upcoming exhibits:

  • Design Transfigured/Waste Reimagined, Feb. 1, 2020 – May 17, 2020, is the first exhibition to recognize designers using extreme and inventive upcycling to address the current state of the depleted and polluted environment. Waste produced by humans is so abundant that it is disrupting natural resources. To reduce the footprint on earth, 30 international designers and studios — from Asia, Latin America and Europe — pioneer a new direction in design by transforming waste into useful products.
  • Unapologetic: All Women, All Year, Feb. 15, 2020 – Dec. 6, 2020, examines works from SMoCA’s collection, highlighting diverse women artists whose work addresses identity, beauty, violence and equality while calling for systemic change within culture, where individuals of all gender, sexuality, race, ethnicity, class, age and abilities are represented within museums. On view during the 100th anniversary of the Women’s Suffrage Movement in the United States, the exhibition is part of Feminist Art Coalition, a national platform for art projects informed by feminisms
  • Phillip K. Smith III (working title), June 6, 2020 – Oct. 4, 2020, southern California artist Phillip K. Smith III creates experiential art that highlights changes in perception as related to light, color, time and space using mirrors, aluminum and LEDs while transforming spaces to expand the sensorial experience of viewers. This exhibition presents new large-scale works that incorporate a precisely paced program of changing colors.
  • Urban Mapping: Public Space Through the Lens of Contemporary Iranian Artists, June 13, 2020 – Sept. 20, 2020, highlights aspects of the Iranian experience by focusing on public and private spaces. Comprised of 40 photographs and four video installations, the exhibition features the work of 10 essential voices in contemporary Iranian art who explore urban space as a nexus of social communication and political transformation; a place where personal and collective identity converge.
  • Nathan Lynch: Truthiness (working title), Oct. 3, 2020 – Jan. 17, 2021, sculptor and performance artist Nathan Lynch shapes objects and situations focused on formal qualities of sculpture, as well as satirical and philosophical observations about human nature as his installation of handmade ceramic sculptures foster awkward, semi-public interactions between individuals, showing shared experience of vulnerability. The exhibition has a variety show with storytellers, singer/songwriters, comedians and political scientists who create new works based on the same prompt in order to further consider the range in which truth can exist.
  • Brad Kahlhamer: Swap Meet, Oct. 17, 2020 – Jan. 31, 2021, New York City-based Native American artist Brad Kahlhamer draws his inspiration from the ethnographic experience of “field-work” at swap meets throughout the southwest, which he has engaged with since his Arizona childhood. The social and cultural space of the swap meet models and fuels his artistic practice in painting, drawing, sculpture, installation, performance and music, as well as a new commission.

Go to: SMoCA.org or SMoCA@ScottsdaleArts.org for more details; or call 480-874-4666.